Re: Help required to read and print lines based on the type of first character

[Paul Rubin]

abhinayaraj.r...@emulex.com writes:
>       if '####' in data:
>               count = 4
>       elif '###' in data:
>               count = 3
>       elif '##' in data:
>               count = 2
>       elif '#' in data:
>               count = 1
>       elif data.find('#') == -1:
>               count = 0

import re
max_sharps = reduce(max, map(len, re.findall('#+', data)), 0)
max_sharps = min(max_sharps, 4)
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